TAXIDERMY: AN OTTER MASK BY P SPICER & SONS OF LEAMINGTON SPA

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TAXIDERMY: AN OTTER MASK BY P SPICER & SONS OF LEAMINGTON SPA mounted on an oak shield with ivorine plaque inscribed ‘D. O. H. Flete 31 VIII 1915’ with a paper label to the back of the shield with inscription ‘Dartmoor Otterhounds Tuesday 31st August, Hounds met at 10am at fleet for the erme. They moved off upstream and marked a holt below ermington bridge, but could not shift him. The Master drew down stream below the lower clam, and found in a holt on the island they put the otter down first upstream then down, after forty minutes they forced him to land on the left bank and made for the lake. up and down the lake they forced him to land once more. The pack to close caught him. They put him down at 12.50pm and rolled him over at 1.45pm. A 14lb bitch otter’, 28cm long A private Midlands sporting collection. Some small surface marks and scratches to the shield, some small marks to the otter's mouth, in fairly good condition for its age.

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